Census The Favorite Novel Tournament nomination thread

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It's time for another tournament. The competitors: novels. In order to avoid suffering the fate of the last movie tournament, you may nominate a series, saga, cycle, duology, or trilogy (and so forth) as a single entry. Nominations for standalone novels are still welcome, and any nominations for a novel that is part of a series will be counted as a nomination for the series. The rules are the same usual:

Maximum of four novel or series nominations per post, with no back-to-back (or back-to-back-to-back) posts.

Star Wars novels had their own tournament, and are all off-limits for this one.

Note that nominations will not be counted more than once for each novel or series, so there's no need to name one that's already been nominated. Also, please provide links to descriptions of the novels and series you nominate (using Wikipedia if possible) in order to expedite the process.

 

Nominations:

[Anne McCaffrey, author]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonriders_of_Pern

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[Karen Kingsbury, author]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Kingsbury#Firstborn_series

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[Arthur Golden, author]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_a_Geisha

 

Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien

Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini

The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins

The Sword of Truth Series by Terry Goodkind

 

Vorkosigan Saga by Lois McMaster Bujold
Lymond Chronicles by Dorothy Dunnett
Dresden Files by Jim Butcher
A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin

 

The Other Boleyn girl by Philippa Gregory
Mistborn (trilogy) by Brandon Sanderson
Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling
Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan

 

The Hollows Series by Kim Harrison
Danger in the Shadows by Dee Henderson
The Healer's Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson
The Year She Fell by Alicia Rasley

 

The Black Dagger Brotherhood by J.R. Ward
The Demon Cycle by Peter V. Brett
The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks
Myst: The Book of Atrus by Rand & Robin Miller

 

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Temeraire by Naomi Novik
Erast Fandorin by Boris Akunin
Discworld by Terry Pratchett

 

The Book Of The New Sun, Gene Wolfe

Catch-22, Joseph Heller

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Susanna Clarke

American Gods, Neil Gaiman

 

Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan

The Kane Chronicles by Rick Riordan

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

The Arthurian Saga by Mary Stewart

 

Twelve Houses series by Sharon Shinn
Heroes series by Moira J. Moore
Study series by Maria V. Snyder
Tamir Triad by Lynn Flewelling

 

MythAdventures by Robert Lynn Asprin

Redwall by Brian Jacques

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency/The Long Dark Tea Time Of The Soul by Douglas Adams

Animal Farm by George Orwell

 

The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
Malazan Book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson
Vlad Taltos by Steven Brust
Ciaphas Cain by Sandy Mitchell

 

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

 

Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White

 

Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
Shane Schofield by Matthew Reilly
Takeshi Kovacs by Richard K. Morgan
Codex Alera by Jim Butcher

 

Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Left Behind Series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
Ender's Game Series by Orson Scott Card

 

A Long Way Down, by Nick Hornby

Out Of The Silent Planet, by C.S. Lewis

Around The World In 80 Days, by Jules Verne


If I might nominate an anthology of short stories:

The Barnum Museum, by Steven Millhauser

 

Age of the Five by Trudi Canavan
The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde

 

Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way

 

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

A Farewell to Arma by Ernest Hemmingway

The Dark Elf Trilogy by R. A. Salvatore

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

 

Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte

Cien Anos de Soledad
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
by J. R. R. Tolkien

 

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
The Witches of Eileanan series by Kate Forsyth
Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shinn
The Giver by Lois Lowry

 

Anyone else have anything to add?